Researchers Seek Ethical Ok To Clone Human Embryos

The Nation - In Brief

October 14, 2004

BOSTON -- Harvard researchers want to be the first in the United States to produce cloned human embryos for disease research. A team of researchers has asked a university ethics review board for permission to conduct research using embryonic stem cells. "We don't want to see the United States left behind," said Charles Jennings, executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. He said the research would be tightly controlled and would not attempt to clone humans.